> > ...and make way for the latest human race-obliterating scientific advance: the Big Bang replicating nuclear accelerator!
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> Heh... lovely... I always appreciate hearing about machines that can theoretically create conditions that have not existed since "the birth of the universe" (or whatever the heck they said).
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> Now, I may be missing something (and if I am, by all means, fill me in), but what is the point of this? Is this just science for its own sake, or is there an application I just don't see?
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> And, by the way, my hat is off to the guy who named "strange matter." Science with humour value! :-}
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> > Iss "and here I thought scientific progress only went 'Boink'" achar
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> No, sometimes it goes "blark."
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> Dar "Quark III: Arena" ien


well off the top of my non-scientific mind, discovering how to make enough energy to create a universe would make a rather powerful stardrive. . . FTL travel may be possible with that much energy. I remember it takes a BOATLOAD of energy to make antimatter, and that physicists have now said that a matter/antimatter mix may be the key to FTL travel (how DID star trek get that right???) . .so if you could harness that much power and use it to make antimatter. . .

i would prefer it, however, if they avoided turning the earth into a singularity, thank you very much.